Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-07
CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE.
How Sjate Papers Of the President are
Written and DeiiYsred-Cgu'i6n
Used IN Printing the Message
Row Message Was Observation-Disclosures
Egosism as shown IN Nessagss-A
Story CT Grant-OGher Gossip.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

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message himself, using steel pen, and
scratching of his thoughts in g fine Itsl-
ian hand. He is a rapid writer, and cor
reefs his Manuscript very little. The
printers have been instructed to use the
greatest precautions, and am told that
when the copy goes to the government
printing office it is cut up into little
pieces, no one Of which contains more
than s sentence. These are handed to
different type-setters, and no one but the
foreman of the office has the making up
Of the matter.
The message has been in course OF
preparation ali summer, and Mr.. Cleyc-
land had begun TO formulate it before he
went On his western trip. He has TAXED
with the leading statesmen of the party
in regard 70 certain parts Of it, and some
of it was gotten up with Speaker Carlisle
while sitting on the porch of his country
home.
President Cleveland is very prolific
message writer. His vetoes were oil
written by himself, snd he penned his last
Thanksgiving proclamation. BE does &
great Smount Of clerical work, and he
writes letters which other Presidents
give to their private secretaries.
President Lincoln dictated the most OF
his messages, and what he did write he
wrote in a small hand, easily read. He
did not spell his manuscript by revising
it, and such of his writings SIS are in ex-
istence LOOK as though they had been
written by lsdy.
johnson dictated all his messages, and
he could talk much better than he could
write. His forte was on the stump snd
N conversation, and rot at tie desk. He
thought very fast, but wrote very slowly
A great part Of his messages were gotten
up in conversation with Jere Black and
Tennessee friend, Judge Milligsn, and,
speaking Of these, q large part OF every
Presidents message is inspired By other
than himself. A part Of the S CretaTy Of
the Treesury's last report, which accom-
panied CievelaDd's message last year, was
supposed TO have been written by MantCn
Marble, and not by Daniel Manning.
When Cleveland vas nominated it was
said that MantOn Marble apd Dan Lock
wood wrote his letter of acceptance; but
his messages since then show that ne l.
amply able to do his Own writing, and
that he cen think rs well es he can write
The Presidents message g read in Con-
gress at the first of the session. The
Senate and the House of Representatives
have eacn copy in manuscript,
end this is read out by the clerk in q
droniug voice. Print. copies Of the same
document lie on the desks of the mem
bers, and they follow the clerks reading,
| The message is brought to the Capitol by
Mr. Pruden, the executive clerk. and he
| is received ct the doors of the Senate and
House, and announces that he las mes
sage from the President in writing. This
| is the solemn form in the Senate, where
the old grey-haired messenger, Captain
Isaac Bassett, takss the message from
Pruden and carries it to the Vice Presi-
dents chair. The Vice President hands
it to the clerk and the clerk reads.
At the beginning of the government all
messages were delivered by the presi-
dents in person, and George Washington
rode in great state to the CAPT oil, in q
four-horse coach with servants in red
livery. In day or two Congress
called upon him and replied to
MS address, and it was per
hsps the bftterest time in Wsshington's
| life when Congress refu ed to do this.
He was very unpopular at the time, on
account OF the Jay treaty, and he was
prosecuted so by the newspapers. and by
| his enemies in Congress, that he sWore
81 c., thst he would rather be in his
grave than in the presidency. He would
rather be on his farm than the Emperor
! of the world, and yet they were charging
him with waning TO be king.
When he retired Congress refused to
pass resolutions complimentary to him,
and Giles of Virginia, said that "he felt
no regard .or the President and hoped he
you'd retire." John Randolph of R lan-
oke, at the same time, gave this toast at
dinner"
"Gecrge Washington, may he be damn
ed" and, upon outbursts OF indignation
following, ne added the words: "if he
doesn't sign the Jay treaty"
George Washington delivered thirteen
messages during the eight years he
served, and Jefferson delivered twenty
three; Ma ison, twenty five; Jackson,
seventeen, and Monroe, thirteen. Both
Jsckson and Washington delivered fare
well addresses; and Washington's fare
well address is said to have been written
by, Alexander Hamilton and James
Madison.
Jackson's best messages are said 70
have been plsgiarizsd. Major Lewis and
| Henry Lee wrote his first inaugural, and
Edward Livingstone wrote the famous
notification proclamation.
. Daniel Webster revised HsTrisop's In
| augursl, and he tried 10 dictate TO Tyler
what TO write.
Harrison's was the longest Inaugural
address ever delivered, and it contained
over 5000 words. Polk wrote the Eek
longest, containing fully 20Q0 words less,
and the shortest ever delivered was that
of George Washington at his second term
and it contsined only 134 words. The
character of President can be sometimes
told By his use of the personal
pronoun. The conceit of Vsn Burer
makes him use the word "I'' thirty-eight
ines in his inaugural, and Franklin
| P. rec used it twenty five times. Wash
lngton's first inaugural contains twenty
egOs, snd his second only six President
| Cleveland was the most modest Of the
Presidents. He used SGT" only five times
IN his inaugural, whereas Garfield used i
rep, Hayes sixteen, Grant twentyfour,
Buchanan thirteen, john Quincy Adams
fourteen and Monroe nineteen.
TIE greatest of cur Presidents have
been the modestest, and Lincoln, at his
| second term, delivered an inaugural il